Make NIS slave server answers on two NICs (subnets)

[Lars Bylander]

Hello,

I have two subnets, let us call them 1 and 2. Subnet 1 has the NIS-masters and slaves. Subnet 2 contains a SAN-disk which I would líke to be a NIS-client using the NIS-servers on subnet 1. One server with two NICs has one NIC configured for subnet 1 and the other NIC for subnet 2. Traceroute from this server shows that I reach booth subnet 1 and 2 only with one hop.

I configured the 2 NIC server to be a NIS-slave also. I thought the NIS-slave would listen answer NIS broadcasts on both subnet 1 and 2, but this do not work! Any suggestions how to get it work?

The HP-UX version is 11.11.

Best regards,
Lars Bylander

[Steven E. Protter]

Shalom,

You'll need two NIC cards on the system.

Looking at our NIS slave server configuration there is no difference between the ones servicing two networks with two nics in the /etc/rc.config.d/namesvr file with those that serve one network.

You may need to look at your client configuration.

If you specify NIS server by hostname and it does not resolve, this could be a problem.

SEP

[Lars Bylander]

Hello Steven,

The client is a cheap SAN-disk with a web based interface, no possibillity to bind it to a specific NIS-server. Having the client on subnet 1 works fine, but then moving it to subnet 2 it does not work.

Lars By.